Why is the doctrine of the Trinity so important to our understanding of salvation?

06-06-04 Stiffkey
Trinity Sunday
Today is Trinity Sunday and so I think it is useful to ask the question today - Do Christians believe in one God or Three Gods? as the Muslims claim.
This is often the challenge made by those Monotheistic religions that do not
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The Mind of Christ
Text: Phil 2.5-8
Introduction:
• What is Christmas all about? -v.5.
• Christmas doesn’t belong to the world and they world cannot give Christmas its meaning.
• The passage tells us what Christmas is really about, it’s about Jesus Christ. He truly is “the reason for
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The Word
John 1:1-2: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) The same was in the beginning with God. (2)
"In the beginning was the Word." (3)
1) LETS DEFINE BEGINNING –
a) What it is not saying- That Jesus had a beginning.
b) What
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Some people think that Jesus never knew sickness or pain until the cross but that thinking is contrary to scripture. Jesus knows full well what it means to be human.

Jesus from Baby to Boy
Many people are fascinated with the life of Jesus but say there is a lack of information about his early years. I want to address that concern and show you we know more about Jesus early years than people think. What we need to remember is that the gospel writers were
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The Sacred Essence, Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
Introduction
G. Campbell Morgan, the well known pastor of the last century of Westminster Chapel, near Buckingham Palace, was once approached by a soldier who said he would give anything to believe that God would forgive sins, “but I cannot believe
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What a wonder that God’s Son came from heaven to us! He alone brings us eternal life. Only through his word in the Scriptures and the Sacraments does the Father draw us to the Son.

Text: John 6:41-51
Theme: The Father Draws You to Eat the Living Bread
Season: Pentecost 12b
Date: August 23, 2009
Web page: www.caughtbyjesus.net/sermons/The-Father-Draws-You-to-Eat-the-Living-Bread-John6_41-51.html
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior
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There are some who try to explain the Trinity, but they just confuse people!
They say, God is Jesus and Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit is mixed in there too????

There are some who try to explain the Trinity, but they just confuse people!
They say, God is Jesus and Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit is mixed in there too????
How can we better understand this mystery? Every opinion seems to be different, but every school of thought have verses to back their
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When put on trial, Jesus stood before the world until they ask Him THE question, then the world stood before Jesus.

The World Meets Jesus
Mark 14:53-65
• When I was student minister, I love to show the old 35mm movies. Only youth retreats we would routinely show to old movies. The opening night of youth retreat we would see a movie entitled “Without Onions,” and the closing night we would see
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The first in a seven week series on the "I Am" sayings of Jesus from John's gospel account.

Introduction:
I’m not real big on New Year’s resolutions, but at the beginning of this year I set a personal goal to know Jesus better this year. So I’m really excited about the next seven weeks because we’re going to get to know Jesus better through His own words. Near
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Last week we began a seven week journey to get to know Jesus better through His own words. In particular we’re focusing on the seven “I am” sayings of Jesus that are recorded for us in John’s gospel account. As we discovered last week, with each of those seven sayings, Jesus
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One of the first things that came to mind as I began to prepare the message this week was the game show “Let’s Make a Deal”. Many of you, like me, remember the original show, hosted by Monty Hall where the contestants were given a number of choices throughout the show. At the end
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This week, more than two dozen people were arrested in connection with a $325 million counterfeit ring that was attempting to import knockoffs from China and Taiwan through a port in New Jersey. Among the fake items were counterfeit Nike shoes, Ugg boots, and Louis Vuitton, Coach and Gucci
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but just about one month from today, all of us must have filed our income tax returns for 2011. And every year when we complete our returns, we’re reminded of the old adage first made famous in one of Benjamin Franklin’s letters: “In this world
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We all know that the Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years after they escaped from Egypt. Some claim that is because even in Bible times, men wouldn’t stop to ask for directions. But fortunately for us, in the account we’ll look at this morning, Jesus’ disciples
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This morning we’ll complete a seven week journey in which we have examined the seven “I am” sayings of Jesus in John’s gospel account. And as we’ve done that, we’ve gotten to know Jesus better through His own words. Each of the seven sayings reveals some aspect
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